Ride

[00:32.50] I was in the winter of my life, and the men I met along the road were my only summer

[00:41.42] At night I fell asleep with visions of myself, dancing and laughing and crying with them

[00:48.52] Three years down the line of being on an endless world tour, and my memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real happy times

[01:08.09] I was a singer. Not a very popular one

[01:12.42] I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken

[01:30.90] But I didn't really mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is

[01:48.32] When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I'd been living, they asked me "Why?", but there's no use in talking to people who have home

[01:59.82] They have no idea what it's like to seek safety in other people, for home to be wherever you lay your head

[02:10.65] I was always an unusual girl

[02:17.68] My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean

[02:36.90] And if I said I didn't plan for it to turn out this way I'd be lying

[02:44.48] Because I was born to be the other woman

[02:48.79] Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone

[02:54.90] Who had nothing, who wanted everything, with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn't even talk about it, and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me

[03:46.57] I been out on that open road

[03:55.11] But you can be my full-time daddy, white and gold

[04:04.74] Singing blues has been getting old

[04:12.77] But you can be my full-time baby, hot or cold

[04:20.25] Don't break me down (Don't break me down)

[04:25.09] I been traveling too long (I been traveling too long)

[04:30.14] I been trying too hard (I been trying too hard)

[04:35.20] With one pretty song (With one pretty song)

[04:42.90] I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast

[04:47.69] I am alone at midnight

[04:52.79] Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I

[04:57.68] I've got a war in my mind

[05:01.22] So, I just ride, just ride

[05:12.12] I just ride, I just ride

[05:23.81] Dying young and playing hard

[05:32.04] That's the way my father made his life and art

[05:41.87] Drink all day and we talk 'til dark

[05:49.94] That's the way the road dogs do it, light 'til dark

[05:57.10] Don't leave me now (Don't leave me now)

[06:02.18] Don't say goodbye (Don't say goodbye)

[06:07.23] Don't turn around (Don't turn around)

[06:12.32] Leave me high and dry (Leave me high and dry)

[06:19.78] I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast

[06:24.83] I am alone at midnight

[06:29.71] Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I

[06:35.04] I've got a war in my mind

[06:38.76] I just ride, just ride

[06:48.72] I just ride, I just ride

[07:00.38] I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy

[07:05.45] I'm tired of driving 'til I see stars in my eyes

[07:11.02] It's all I've got to keep myself sane, baby

[07:15.28] So I just ride, I just ride

[07:21.15] I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast

[07:26.01] I am alone at midnight

[07:30.82] Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I

[07:36.04] I've got a war in my mind

[07:40.62] I just ride, just ride

[07:50.23] I just ride, I just ride

[08:17.71] Every night I used to pray that I'd find my people, and finally I did on the open road

[08:30.12] We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art

[08:41.21] Live fast. Die young. Be wild. And have fun

[08:51.29] I believe in the country America used to be

[08:55.43] I believe in the person I want to become

[08:58.85] I believe in the freedom of the open road

[09:01.94] And my motto is the same as ever:

[09:06.61] "I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride."

[09:20.47] Who are you?

[09:22.36] Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?

[09:25.96] Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?

[09:31.40] I have. I am fucking crazy

[09:40.51] But I am free